Jetbook Update coming April 2nd
March 28th, 2009 | 
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I really enjoy my using my Jetbook. Now I will have more to enjoy. Ectaco is adding support for Epub and Mobipocket. While it will not be supporting Mobi DRM, this is still great news. I think a drawback for some folks it that the Jetbook only supported txt and pdf files. Their last update added support for fb2. Maybe if the Jetbook gains a bigger user base it will support DRM titles. Personally, I would rather see ereader support. I like that I can read their books on more than just four devices.
I got this news from Mobileread. I tried to find the original source over at Ectaco, but I couldn’t. I would think that when the upgrade is available you’d find it here.
Also, someone wrote a comment here asking how to get their titles onto the reader. All you have to do is plug in your reader to your PC with the included USB cable. It will recognize your reader as a storage drive. Just drag and drop your books in the books folder. For more details you can download the manual here.
So if you are thinking about buying a Jetbook you can get one from Neweggfor 199.00 plus free shipping. The only color listed is graphite. Don’t forget that the Jetbook is not an e-ink reader.
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That Jetbook looks like it is worth a look. I’m interested in the 10 inch Asus tablet with capacitive touch screen. It wont be clear how it will work out until we see it shipped with Windows 7. My 13 inch HP tx1000 resistive touch tablet is a but too heavy for comfortable reading and the resistive touch is just clumsy enough to be distracting. Then there is the possibility that the rumored Apple tablet may be brilliant and worth waiting for or too restrictive or even non existent. I didn’t any readers in Hong Kng in 2008, and will be flying diredtly from Perth to LAX this time – so I will be observing the US market closely. I now have an iPhone Touch and use Sigil to format books to read in Stanza. That works well. Still a bit small for a reading screen but formatted well. It is quihk and easy to export a PDF to HTML, then run it through Sigil and then put it into Stanza.